Stravinsky – Complete Columbia Album Collection

Description

The Complete Columbia Album Collection includes Petrouchka (1940), the premiere recording of the Symphony in Three Movements (1946), Stravinsky’s landmark versions of Orpheus (1949), Apollo (1950) and the Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1950), Pulcinella (1953), The Fairy’s Kiss (1955), the Symphony in C, the Oedipus Rex Stravinsky conducted in Cologne in 1951 and The Rake’s Progress (recorded at the Metropolitan Opera in 1953).

The Complete Columbia Album Collection – Tracklist:

Disc: 1

1. Part One – The Adoration of the Earth – Introduction

2. The Augurs of Spring – Dances of the Young Girls

3. Game of Abduction

4. Spring Round Dances

5. Games of the Rival Tribes

6. Procession of the Oldest-and-Wisest

7. Adoration of the Earth – The Oldest-and-Wisest

8. Dance of the Earth

9. Part Two – The Sacrifice – Introduction

10. Mystical Circles of the Young Girls

11. Glorification of the Chosen Victim

12. Summoning of the Ancestors

13. Ritual of the Ancestors

14. Sacrificial Dance – The Chosen Victim

15. A propos of Le Sacre – Commentary by Igor Stravinsky About the History of a Musical Landmark